Homemade Scent Killer?
 

I seen this recipe on a site and was wondering if anyone here has tried it to make their own scent spray.

Ingredients: 16oz. hydrogen peroxide
16oz. distilled water
1/2 cup baking soda
1oz. unscented shampoo

Step 1) Gently combine all the ingredients in a large bowl until all the baking soda dissolves. Pour this mixture into a 1-gallon lidded container. Let it sit fir three days with the lid on loosely to allow gasses to escape.

Step 2) Fill a plastic bottle that has a trigger sprayer with the scent killer. Make sure it is clean.



Ingredients: Water
Local forage

Step 1) Preferably, gather some pine needles or cedar tree branches from your local area.

Step 2) Put what you have gathered into a pot filled with water.

Step 3) Boil to your desired length of time, 10 minutes should do.

Step 4) Take out the vegetation and pour the liquid, after cooling, into a trigger spray bottle.

RE: Homemade Scent Killer?
 

never heard of any of that, but I do have friends that put powdered apple sent on their boots and pants before going into the woods. Thats not really a sent killer though, just a cover-up.

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Had an old timer tell me once to take two apples with you when you go hunting.

The first one you cut into quarters. Throw one quarter to your left. Throw one quarter to your right. Throw one quarter in front of you and one behind. then sit tight.

I asked: "what about the other apple" He replied: "thats to eat, fool!"

don't know if that would be considered baiting or a cover scent....

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Buddy of mine made some and gave it to me. It worked as good as any of the store bought stuff...as far as I can tell.

He's still got a lot of it left for this season too. It's alot cheaper and pretty easy to do. I say go for it.

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I spose you could always just do make it and then try smelling it....???? Run it past your dog or something, see if he picks anything up.

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I think I saw that recipe in a Field and Stream issue once. I may try it this year just to see how well it works.

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I tried the first "recipe" last year. It seemed to work fine, and I had my opportunities at deer in pretty close. The only problem I had with it was some of the baking soda didn't completely dissolve and kept getting stuck in the tube of the spray bottle. Still have a gallon jug half-filled with the stuff and will use that this year. It's way cheaper than scent killer too.
-- B

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I used the first recipe last year, had the same trouble with the baking soda not completely dissolving, but it does work quite well. I bought one of those big things of paper shop towels in the plastic tub from sams club, popped the top and poured some in there until it saturated the towels and left some in the bottom. I keep it in the back of my pickup for quick cleanups if needed. It completely takes away any fish smell after I've cleaned a stringer full of catfish, which is pretty nice if you wanna stop for a bite on the way home. It seemed to keep me pretty scent free on my elk hunt last year. One piece of advice though. DO NOT use it liberally on your "rear end". Made for one day of VERY uncomfortable walking in the mountains. Everywhere else was not a problem. One more thing, you have to keep in a container with a loose lid for a few days after mixing it, until it stops bubbling. The chemical reaction between the baking soda and peroxide creates a gas, and if you have it in a sealed container it can blow the top off and/or leak all over. The only major downfall is it leaves a slight white powder residue on your clothes if you use too much, but you can usually just give your clothes a rough shake to get rid of it.

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I have been using this formula for a couple of years now.
The thing that convinced methat it works was what happened to my wife's car last year.

She had ran over a skunk in her brand new car. Of course the smell was ummm....you know. She was pretty pissed and took it to the local car was for a good soaking. Came back home and of course it smelled just as bad as when she hit it.

I poured up a bottle of my "juice" and sprayed it all over the undercarriage of the car. I had her come out and give the old sniff test about 30 minutes later. NO SMELL.

Convinced me right there.

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I bet if you put the mixture thru cheesecloth or some other type filter after the curing period in order to catch the baking soda residue, that would take care of the problem with the trigger spray nozzle getting stopped up.

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I have been told the same thing from an old timer I know, but he liked to take 1/2 of a cut apple and rub it chest high on several sides of the bark of a nearby tree. Same idea, just a little different delivery.

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Can somone convert that to metric lol

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But wouldn't that make the stuff smell like cheese and defeat the purpose? :D

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What is the purpose of adding 'unscented shampoo' in recipe 1? Maybe to increase surface tension of the liquid so it stays longer?

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That would be the reason Savage.

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In that case we should add some shampoo to the second recipee as well.

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I've used the first recipe with good success. If the truth be known, that's the formula for most of these "scent killers" on the market today. :eek:

Don

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Wow, I will definately be making some this week. Sounds great. We should start a company. Haha.

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Fawn,
The filtering is a good idea. Maybe cheesecloth, but it might be a little too coarse. I'd bet that a plain old papertowel would work, or even warming up the fluids before mixing in the baking soda...
-- B

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Just use a coffee filter!

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It's a good recipe and works as far as I can tell. Took the smell of gas off my hands after over-filling the boat.
However, a story I read said not to use the 3% peroxide that you can get in a little brown bottle in the store because it has a slight smell all of it's own, but to go to a pool supply company and guy a gallon of their oxidizer stuff...which is 27%. IF you do this, it then has to be diluted down from the 27% to 3% buy using a 9/1 ratio with distilled water.
I mix mine in a container like this bucket. It has an air vent on top...which you need in the first couple of days as the items mix and produce gases. It also has a spout at the bottom to fill your field bottles. Lastly, it does not let in light which will render the product useless after a short period of time.
The recipe and directions are on here, but the search feature is not working at the moment.
Here is the bucket.

RE: Homemade Scent Killer?
 

i made some of that up, and i would swear by it...i have had deer walk right by me( less than 15 yards)...i recommend it, and you can make a whole gallon of it very cheaply( is that a word)....i spray everything with it

RE: Homemade Scent Killer?
 

Any type of unscented shampoo work beter thatn others?

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The first recipe works well, but does leave a slight powdery residue. I had deer all over me when wearing it last year and do not think I was winded even once.

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Lemme take a chance to be honest here. For as long as i have ever been hunting i have never in my life once used a scent killer/blocker. Despite this i have harvested a deer and turkey every season i've been out and had turkeys within 3 or 4 yards. I use regular scented shampoo, regular laundry clothes and only let my cover-alls hang outside for about a week so im sure they still smell.

do scent killers really help?

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I guy i knew who hunted the cedar swamps with me wore his grubby work clothes to hunt in... and all he ever did was burn some cedar boughs and stand over the smoke....essentially "smoking" himself and the clothes in the fragrance of the burning cedar.
He claimed that the deer found the smell a natural thing, and perhaps even made them curious. He did well filling his tags with big deer usually.

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They definately help but I know what your saying. Its kinda funnyactually because my friends grandfather use to go out no scent shield sit on the same stump every year and he chain smoked but yet every year he shot a decent buck. With this ugly old 303 british with a bell flash hider on it.:DSome people I guess are just lucky or the deer are use to it or something. I dont know.